California received a $4.7 million grant from the the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for cyber-security projects. The bulk of the funding will go toward better domain name protection for state web sites for better information security. The state plans on spending $1 Million of the funds for a statewide digital mapping system to plot critical infrastructure and available resources to improve emergency management.

Read more in this feature in Government Technology.

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